The message is clear for us. Is this the life we want? Is this the conditions of life we want to find ourselves in? If NO, then don’t repeat the same mistakes today!

I used two metaphors to help me remember - the Levites lost their COMPASS and their MAP. They live life ignoring God, and ignoring His WORD.

• The first Levite lost sense of God. He was called to serve Him, but end up serving a man and his idols.

• The second Levite lost sense of God’s will. He does not know what is right and good. Life is without purpose and meaning.

Samuel emphasized to us they have no king. They have no king because they have rejected the ONE King they have – God.

• This king has nothing to do with a human leader. Samuel was referring to their rejection of God.

• How can we be so sure? When Israel demanded for a human king later on in 1 Sam 8:6-7, this was Samuel’s reaction: 6But when they said, "Give us a king to lead us," this displeased Samuel; so he prayed to the LORD. 7And the LORD told him: "Listen to all that the people are saying to you; it is not you they have rejected, but they have rejected me as their king.

• They have rejected God. They have chosen to ignore God.

This was prophesied by Moses - Deut 4:25-29

25After you have had children and grandchildren and have lived in the land a long time - if you then become corrupt and make any kind of idol, doing evil in the eyes of the LORD your God and provoking him to anger, 26 I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you this day that you will quickly perish from the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess. You will not live there long but will certainly be destroyed. 27The LORD will scatter you among the peoples, and only a few of you will survive among the nations to which the LORD will drive you. 28There you will worship man-made gods of wood and stone, which cannot see or hear or eat or smell. 29But if from there you SEEK THE LORD your God, you will find him if you look for him with all your heart and with all your soul.